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. >> correct, who is house speaker john boehner referring to? >> i'm not sure who he is referring to and it is just a matter of how seriously he takes this and it's good that he has a bunch of scepticism. the higher ups didn't know about it? that was false and now we no other assurances are false and now we need to know about it under oath. >> let the facts go where they may but it looks like you had mid-level bureaucrats who did this and they are protected and they are only two political appointees. this is inappropriate. >> they hid it from congress. >> i don't know that hiding from something from congress is illegal either. >> i don't know that, that is illegal either. >> it is wrong. how about the hat jack from permitting civil servants from engaging in political activity that is false. >> but an inspector general who is appointed by former president bush. you really have to stretch -- >> to find a crime. >> to find a crime and a crime that leads to the oval office. >> you said it is a particular concern to the white house and there could be
. >> correct, who is house speaker john boehner referring to? >> i'm not sure who he is referring to and it is just a matter of how seriously he takes this and it's good that he has a bunch of scepticism. the higher ups didn't know about it? that was false and now we no other assurances are false and now we need to know about it under oath. >> let the facts go where they may but it looks like you had mid-level bureaucrats who did this and they are protected and they are only...
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last week house speaker john boehner broke the deadlock by offering president obama a deal. six days of negotiations later, the white house and congress reached an interrum agreement. the federal government is back in operation until january 15 of next year. the debt ceiling is extended until february 7 of next year. and the joint house budget conference committee shared by house republican paul ryan and senate democrat patty murray will negotiate a new federal budget. question, is the real horse training about to begin on automatic spending cuts? potential tax increases? another debt ceiling increase? and obama care. or ten weeks from now will there be a new year's sequel to this month's government shutdown and almost debt default? >> the horse trading is about to begin as it will begin. the irony is now that ted cruz has won. now the republican leadership is going to be in the position to get obama care. paul ryan is obviously going to try to get cuts to medicare, you know, social security and the entitlements. they're going to work to save sequestration. so the republican
last week house speaker john boehner broke the deadlock by offering president obama a deal. six days of negotiations later, the white house and congress reached an interrum agreement. the federal government is back in operation until january 15 of next year. the debt ceiling is extended until february 7 of next year. and the joint house budget conference committee shared by house republican paul ryan and senate democrat patty murray will negotiate a new federal budget. question, is the real...
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. >> john boehner shot back. quote, the president got his higher tax. $600 billion from higher earners with no spending cuts at the end of 2012. he also got higher taxes via obamacare. the president's sequester is the wrong way to reduce the deficit, but it is here to stay until washington democrats get serious about cutting spending. the government simply cannot keep delaying the inevitable and spending money it doesn't have. unquote. question, president obama wants to pin sequestration on the republicans. speaker boehner calls sequestration, as you saw, quote unquote, the president's sequester. is he right? >> yes, he is right, in that it was proposed by the president and by his folks when they had the budget impasse, as a way of i say, putting pressure on both sides at some point to deal with it. but our government is so dysfunctional we are at this particular stage now. the problem now is, where do we go from here in terms of this is going to undermine the confidence of the country in the government, and its
. >> john boehner shot back. quote, the president got his higher tax. $600 billion from higher earners with no spending cuts at the end of 2012. he also got higher taxes via obamacare. the president's sequester is the wrong way to reduce the deficit, but it is here to stay until washington democrats get serious about cutting spending. the government simply cannot keep delaying the inevitable and spending money it doesn't have. unquote. question, president obama wants to pin sequestration...
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harry reid and john boehner squared off again on student loans. >> the house has done its job. it's students that are going to pay the price when they see the interest rate on their loans doubling. >> balance the budget on the backs of struggling students. >> how republicans hold the keys to the fate of both immigration reform and the farm bill. on immigration, the senate plans that couples who promise a path to citizenship with increased border security is a nonstarter with house conservatives who favor a piecemeal approve. >> the speaker, john boehner is in a very weak position with his band of very extreme conservatives who have little interest in making concessions. >> the fate of the five-year half a trillion dollar farm bill is uncertain. conservatives want cuts in the almost $80 billion a year food stamp program. which along with farm subsidy programs expires at the end of september. >> a large part of that bill, and it's been estimated as much as 80%, may be allocated to funding food stamps. >> republicans are saying some of the house is saying that that isn't going to
harry reid and john boehner squared off again on student loans. >> the house has done its job. it's students that are going to pay the price when they see the interest rate on their loans doubling. >> balance the budget on the backs of struggling students. >> how republicans hold the keys to the fate of both immigration reform and the farm bill. on immigration, the senate plans that couples who promise a path to citizenship with increased border security is a nonstarter with...
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the problem, john -- >> who puts out those ratings? >> moody's is one. >> credit rating agencies. >> what about something in poors, standard & poor's, they put it out also? >> that's right. >> what is it now, a minus. >> one is triple a, and >> and the fed is buying all of the debt. now, here is the -- >> wait a minute. let's hear that again. >> the fed is buying all of the debt. >> the debt is bought by the fed? >> they give cash to the government and that debt goes on the balance sheet of the federal reserve board. that's right. we're buying it, okay? or the federal government. the bank, the federal reserve board bank. >> let's go back to -- >> it is a game on some level. because nobody else will buy that amount of debt. not anybody in the world will buy that debt. >> will the chinese buy it? >> no, they're diminishing what they're buying, john. let me get to the crisis here. >> yes. >> the political crisis on top of this fiscal crisis is the republicans will not give obama one more dime in tax increases and the democratic party of h
the problem, john -- >> who puts out those ratings? >> moody's is one. >> credit rating agencies. >> what about something in poors, standard & poor's, they put it out also? >> that's right. >> what is it now, a minus. >> one is triple a, and >> and the fed is buying all of the debt. now, here is the -- >> wait a minute. let's hear that again. >> the fed is buying all of the debt. >> the debt is bought by the fed? >>...
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john, president obama was also out speaking today. what did we learn from him? >> he said he was not going to negotiate, the very thing that john boehner was reacting to, which is why that race to avoid a shutdown was kind of like a race with cement shoes on. nobody moved. there was no action in the estimate. we're still waiting to see a final resolution of the extended government spending in the senate, then kick it back to the house. john boehner said today that he's not even going to address as a speculative thing what the house is going to do when that bill comes back. unless they pass it by monday, we're going to have a shutdown. >> so mr. boehner might not want to speculate. i'm going to force you to. if that bill comes back to the house without the shutdown or the defunding of obama care in it, what are the republicans likely to do? are they likely to send the spending bill back to the senate that has some sort of condition attached to it? >> you know, i think, tyler, that they may focus their energy so much on the debt limit bill that they decide to let
john, president obama was also out speaking today. what did we learn from him? >> he said he was not going to negotiate, the very thing that john boehner was reacting to, which is why that race to avoid a shutdown was kind of like a race with cement shoes on. nobody moved. there was no action in the estimate. we're still waiting to see a final resolution of the extended government spending in the senate, then kick it back to the house. john boehner said today that he's not even going to...
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our speaker john boehner was faced with a familiar choice. embrace something which on its face seemed to be a comrumize with democratics -- compromise with democrats or surrender to demands guaranteeing a show down with president obama and democrats. well,ed a mid-week john boehner announced he -- nouned he would -- announced he would make up his mind, he would confront president obama and democrats in the senate. he scheduled an early vote that will grant money to keep the government open and at the same time eliminate money tounderwrite much of the -- to underwrite much of the obama healthcare law and republicans will challenge the administration further by demanding a one year delay of all features of the healthcare law, obama care. within minutes senate majority leader harry reid denounced the strategy describing republicans as anarchists. tying up the upper chamber to stall or deep 6 the obama healthcare law. bipartisan ship is a thing of the past. so if there is no action by september 30 a week from monday, every agents in the governmen
our speaker john boehner was faced with a familiar choice. embrace something which on its face seemed to be a comrumize with democratics -- compromise with democrats or surrender to demands guaranteeing a show down with president obama and democrats. well,ed a mid-week john boehner announced he -- nouned he would -- announced he would make up his mind, he would confront president obama and democrats in the senate. he scheduled an early vote that will grant money to keep the government open and...
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so, john, did the vote today, in the house, make things better, or worse? and can lawmakers ever hope in reaching a deal on these very tough issues like the budget? >> well, i don't think it changed anything that we thought going in to the vote today, sue. this may be the last time that those members are going to have an opportunity to cheer like they did today, because harry reid is right, that bill is dead in the senate. you could say dead three times if you wanted to. the president would veto it even if it passed. now what we're going to do is have the senate act. they're going to extend government funding and it will be on the shoulders of john boehner to convince those members who were cheering today to pass a extension of government funding without the obama care provision, which he tried last week to do. couldn't do it. >> you described this earlier today john as kabuki theater. it certainly seemed like an apt description. do these shutdowns if one does happen, do they ever save money or end up costing taxpayers? >> they cost money, tyler, because th
so, john, did the vote today, in the house, make things better, or worse? and can lawmakers ever hope in reaching a deal on these very tough issues like the budget? >> well, i don't think it changed anything that we thought going in to the vote today, sue. this may be the last time that those members are going to have an opportunity to cheer like they did today, because harry reid is right, that bill is dead in the senate. you could say dead three times if you wanted to. the president...
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the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org." anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. in the aftermath of the boston bombings and the massive manhunt which...
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and by debby boehner, wife of house speaker john boehner. sorry to interrupt you there. >> more recently, you may disagree with the content and the tone but no one will dispute the fact that george w. bush was aiming for the bleachers with his second inaugural with what he called his freedom speech which is -- in terms of projecting american force, moral and military around the world in the wake of 9/11 and the doctrine of preemptive military action. >> you knows the reference to lincoln, we talk about being in a divided america now. in many ways we are politically. but you think about lincoln and that inauguration, both of his, it was a different level. >> different level all together. he is involved in the conflict where half a million people would be killed, the end of channeled slavery. a lot is at stake. we're fighting now but not anywhere like that, thank god. >> we're about to see the introduction of the first lady of the united states, michelle obama. as you watched her grow in this role the last four years, what do you think? >> wel
and by debby boehner, wife of house speaker john boehner. sorry to interrupt you there. >> more recently, you may disagree with the content and the tone but no one will dispute the fact that george w. bush was aiming for the bleachers with his second inaugural with what he called his freedom speech which is -- in terms of projecting american force, moral and military around the world in the wake of 9/11 and the doctrine of preemptive military action. >> you knows the reference to...